how to make your research more visible

publication strategy and ethical aspects

Damien Belvèze
damien.belveze@univ-rennes.fr

Université de Rennes

2024-12-04

a toot posted in Mastodon by a researcher asking where she should publish her paper on analysis of Twitter data to explore the science reform community structure

where should I publish

  • rejection rate
  • nepotistic journals
  • bibliodiversity
  • open science standards

editorial bias and nepotistic reviews

“nepotistic or self promotion journals”

  • when the most prolific authors are also part of the editorial board
  • when you have kins or team mates in the editorial board

editor-in chief and 6 other board members work for him they authored together 44% of the published papers (2021) 📓 Scanff et al. (2021)

why study registration

  • increase transparency
  • get feedback from the design of the study
  • reduce data or hypothesis manipulation risks

Where to register one study

Prospero for biology and Health Sciences

Zenodo for every discipline

OSF for every discipline

journal finders

Bison built upon DOAJ and OpenCites Bison

Web of science journal finder

open journal matcher

try AI tools such as Perplexity.ai

You have just finished the manuscript of your paper. To which journals will you submit it ?

  • you do not have money to pay Article Processes Charges

  • your paper should be accessible to all without embargo once published

should you deposit a preprint version of your work ?

should you deposit a preprint version of your work ?

  • is it possible to have a paper published in the Bone & Joint Journal after having deposited it on BioRXiv?

  • is it possible to have a paper published in the ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics after having deposited it on SSRN (owned by Elsevier)?

  • is it possible to have a paper published in the journal Physical Review Fluids after having deposited in an institutionnal preprint server?

should you deposit a preprint version of your work ?

is it possible to have a paper published in the Bone & Joint Journal after having deposited it on BioRXiv?

  • No, this journal does not publish papers whose submitted version can be found in any preprint server

is it possible to have a paper published in the ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics after having deposited it on SSRN (owned by Elsevier)?

  • only non-for-profit preprint servers are accepted by the journal’s policy. Elsevier is a for profit company.

is it possible to have a paper published in the journal Physical Review Fluids after having deposited in an institutionnal preprint server?

  • any preprint server will be accepted

Plan S : make scientific output immediately available

  • green open access with retention right strategy
  • gold open access
  • diamond open access

Green Open Access

traditional way of publishing

  • inflation of subscription costs
  • 2012, Tim Gowers : “The cost of knowledge”
  • embargo periods

Gold Open Access

  • immediately open access
  • Gold should be more than “APC”
  • hybrid Open Access

Is it possible to publish your paper in these journals

The three pillars of Open Science

Scanff, A., Naudet, F., Cristea, I. A., Moher, D., Bishop, D. V. M., & Locher, C. (2021). A survey of biomedical journals to detect editorial bias and nepotistic behavior. PLOS Biology, 19(11), e3001133. https://doi.org/gnk8b8